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[her_imperial_radiance]

Elspeth gets a door.

It's been so long she reels for a moment, and then she throws herself forward and almost lands in a peal of Bells. Yes, there's Shell Bell, there's Juliet and Aurora, there's Glass, there's some Matilda she hasn't seen before.

"Elspeth!" exclaims Glass.

"How long has it been?" Aurora asks.

"Seventeen years. Shell Bell - I need you to help me find Harley," says Elspeth.

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[giftedandtalented]

"...Hi, Jarvis," says Tab shyly. "So, um, I have enchanting all wished up, who's channeling for me first?"

[pythbox]

"I wanna try!" says Corona, grinning at her.

[incanted]

"Start with something medium-sized because they vary in tolerance some, and, Elspeth warned you in her explanation this is a thing with Jokers, right, you don't have to do anything about it but if that bothers you we should go back Downside and see if Eights is free."

[giftedandtalented]

"It can be his thing as long as no one expects it to be my thing," shrugs Tab. "Symbiosis, yeah? I just dump power in the forest and it'll suck it up?" At Glass's nod, she tilts back into her mindscape - the orbital ring - and reaches for Corona's.

[pythbox]

Corona's mindscape is a broad, bright field of wildflowers, dotted with trees and bordered by water. The shape of that ring of water almost suggests a moat, and there are piles of old, tumbled stones covered with ivy that hint at a tall building that might once have stood here. A castle, maybe. But it's hardly possible to tell under all that vegetation.

[giftedandtalented]

Pretty.

And now it has a medium-sized amount of Heart flowing through it. Tab is definitely having emotions at this time.

[pythbox]

"Ooh," murmurs Corona.

Without really thinking it through, he wraps his Gift around the feeling of power passing through him, and turns up the dial.

[giftedandtalented]

"Whoa, that is not in the standard enchanting manual," says Tab. "Did you run it through your Gift?"

[thaumobabble]

"Not medium-sized at all," agrees Glass, "as it hit the forest. Wow."

[pythbox]

"Yeah," laughs Corona. "This is fun." He hugs himself and beams and turns it up - brighter, hotter, more.

[thaumobabble]

"I'm intensely curious to know if the aura counts what you're putting in or what he's putting out," says Glass. "Maybe he can have this all done in fifteen minutes."

[giftedandtalented]

"Okay," laughs Tab, and she carries on channeling at medium-size until Corona tells her otherwise.

[pythbox]

Corona keeps on amplifying the stream of power, although he has to snuggle into Brilliance's lap after a few minutes. He doesn't ask for a break, though.

[giftedandtalented]

And in, indeed, about fifteen minutes, Tab is as brightly auraed as her counterparts. There's not a flavor to hers, though.

[thaumobabble]

"Oh, it would have been more efficient to mint him first," sighs Glass, "I didn't think of it, that's a pity - anyway - I'm seeing stuff, but I can't tell you exactly what it does. Lazarus could, he gets interpretation with his magic-seeing. This feature here looks slightly teleportation-colored but not shaped like the Bell standard..."

[giftedandtalented]

"I'll find out," beams Tab.

[her_imperial_radiance]

Meanwhile, Harley is as deprogrammed as Elspeth can get him.

I'll start un-Chelsaing you now, she tells Corona.

[pythbox]

Corona hugs Brilliance, since Brilliance is closer, and beams at Elspeth.

[exactlyright]

Carinna peeps around the doorframe into the room curiously.

[pythbox]

Corona spots this new face and waves from where he's snuggled up in Brilliance's lap.

[exactlyright]

Carinna has not really met Jokers before; she was shy of most everyone at the only Bellparty she has attended, and that was five years ago when she was seven. She does not unhide.

[thaumobabble]

"Do you want to come in, Carinna?" asks Glass.

[exactlyright]

Carinna shifts uncertainly. "I dunno."

[pythbox]

Corona shrugs and cuddles down again, nestling his head on Brilliance's shoulder. Brilliance hugs him. Light plays over them both.

[exactlyright]

"What's wrong with that one Princess Elspeth is holding?" asks Carinna. Princess Elspeth is remembered, because she is a) a princess and b) Elspeth.